Derek G. wrote:
The house here is cavity wall insulated and is very warm in summer,
currently mostly about 27C inside (unheated) on a day like today when
it is 21C outside. This is as cool as we can get it by minimising the
use of heat producing appliances.

We have always experienced lots of slowdowns / crashes ostensibly down
to the router. Poor ventilation and consequent overheating seems to be
a general problem,(current router is a Belkin "G" MIMO that has
pathetic tiny little ventilation slots so cooks itself).

I've tried about 8 routers from the 7 quid variety upwards but from
the point of view of this problem there has been little to choose
between them.

In an attempt to improve this we have had a combined ADSL faceplate
/filter fitted and the router lead replaced by a single short length
(50cms, no joints). Speed is now very good but there has been no
improvement in overheating/slowing down/crashing situation.

The Broadband provider is Talktalk which may / may not be the best,
but restarting the router has always been a fix and when the router
crashes the LAN side goes down as well, so kinda hard to blame this on
Talktalk.

Anybody any ideas ?

I see Billion seems to be current "flavour of the month" manufacturer
of routers in here but seems to be quite expensive. Is it essential to
get the dearest one, or would one of the cheaper models be fast enough
& OK in general for internet at ADSL speeds?

TNX

I've just walked over to my router, which was provided by Sky - and it's
barely warm to the touch. It's sat on my TV shelving above my home cinema
system, skybox, and xbox. You would think that it would get hot in that
position - but I've never had such problems.

My previous router was a Linksys Wag 160nv - and it was rubbish. It would
constantly drop the wireless connection with my laptop - and the only way to
get it back was to either reboot the laptop - or reboot the router. I spent
many hours trying to get the damn thing to work properly - but it never did.
Visiting Linksys forums I found that this router was notorious for this
problem.
I could also never get my mobile phone to connect with the Linksys.

I've never had the slightest problem with the Sky router - it just works.

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Kev